Infocom Interactive Fiction Text Adventure Transcripts and Games

• Spacestation.z5 Version 2.3 Run Code (80Kbytes) WinZip File
  Interactive fiction science fiction game based in Infocom's Planetfall / Stationfall Universe.
  [Implemented: 30th January 2004] Email: Author/Webmaster
  
• Adventure Classic Gaming - article about Writing interactive fiction games with Inform by Webmaster, about above game.
  
• .z5 files runnable using WindowsFrotz2002.zip (664Kbytes) WinZip File
  To run WinFrotz click on it and goto File/Open new story...
  
• IF Inform .z5 Interpreters for other operating systems/computers.
  
• Also try: All the ports of Windows and other Frotz, Z-Machine interpreters and Interpreters.

house_inform_tutorial.zip 31 KBytes - goes through easy stages house01.inf - house08.inf gradually teaching you new inform commands. Beginning with simple room descriptions and map directions, then adding objects...

"...one picture is worth a thousand words and we would rather give you the thousand words."
"It was great fun. It was the kind of fun that I think [you have] when you are simultaneously young and doing something that no one has ever done before and succeeding at it, which is even better."
Dave Lebling, Co-Author of Zork and many other Infocom Games

Introduction Inform Interactive Fiction Interpreters - required to run the transcripts and games, available for most platforms, can run .DAT, .z3 and .z5 games files.

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Infocom Interactive Fiction Text Adventure Working Transcript Games

1. Planetfall Transcript Game
2. Enchanter Transcript Game
3. Beyond Zork Transcript Game
4. Lurking Horror Elevator Exert

Other Games

• PET Corner - conversion of a game on the old Commodore PET Computer.
• Doctor Who - all three Doctor Who Interactive Fiction Text Adventure Games available here.
• Micromouse - maze solving Pascal program.

How to write an Interactive Fiction Text Adventure Inform Game Transcript

• How to write a Transcript
• x8 .h Inform Libraries - How to reduce coding/test time, increase reliability AND make a game look more professional - use standard libraries written by other Authors
• How to submit a transcript

Infocom Planetfall and Stationfall Maps

• Infocom 3D Planetfall Maps - S.P.S. Feinstein, Kalamontee Complex and Lawanda Complex. SPOILERS!!!!!
• Infocom Stationfall Blueprints - Scientific Sub-Module Plans (Scientist's Quarters, Upper, Middle, Lower and Holding Tank Levels) and Stellar Patrol Ship Duffy, Deck Twelve

Infocom Documentation Project

• Main Page
• Copies of Infocom's Status Line 80's Magazine - once known as the New Zork Times
• Infocom Game Manuals
• Infocom Game Maps

what_if.z5 (57Kbytes) A game I entered in Comp2000. Probably only of interest to people who have a interest in history. Not real IF just a few essays on historic events and how they might have developed differently. Alternate histories. Just exploring the borderlands of IF like with the transcripts. Would have been better if I had allowed the player to make historic choices in the game covering all possibilities.